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Aug 03, 2021
Determining the Lengths of a Collection of Carbon Nanotubes
MIE Professor Mohammad Taslim was awarded a patent for “Length-based carbon nanotube ladders.”
Jul 30, 2021
$1.8M NSF Grant for Designing and Controlling Geopolymers Structures
MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali is leading a $1.8 million NSF DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) grant, in collaboration with Norman Wagner from the University of Delaware, Emanuela Del Gado from Georgetown University, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, to create “Rheostructurally-Informed Neural Networks for Geopolymer Material Design.”
Jul 28, 2021
Advancing Remote Robotic Technology
MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney has been working to design lightweight nimble robotic arms that could be capable of remote surgery or other situations where safety might be a factor. […]
Jul 21, 2021
Advancing How AI Can Augment Designer Performance
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam is the PI of a $614K NSF grant with co-PIs Tucker Marion (D’Amore-McKim) and Paolo Ciuccarelli (CAMD), in collaboration with Lu Wang from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, for the project “From User Reviews to User-Centered Generative Design: Automated Methods for Augmented Designer Performance.”
Jul 19, 2021
MIE Student Wins Prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship
Paola Kefallinos, E’23, MS’24, mechanical engineering, was recently awarded the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.
Jul 12, 2021
MIE Research Selected as Editor’s Choice of Physics of Fluids
A research paper, titled “Flexural Bending Resonance of Acoustically Levitated Glycerol Droplet” by Zilong Fang, PhD’22, mechanical engineering, and MIE Professors Kai-Tak Wan and Mohammad Taslim was selected as the Editor’s Choice and published in the journal of Physics of Fluids.
Jul 09, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Jack Lesko
Jack Lesko joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in July 2021 as a Professor and Director of Engineering Research, with a joint appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Jul 09, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Shahin Shahrampour
Shahin Shahrampour joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in July 2021 as an Assistant Professor.